Library Resources

1
Library Resources

• Locate
• Evaluate
• Use Information

Literature Resources
2
askalibrarian.org/mcc

• Real Time Chat
• Librarians
• 10-Midnight Sunday-Thursday
• 10-5 Friday Saturday
• Bradenton Reference Help
• [phone]
• Venice Reference Help
• [phone]

3
Things to Bring

• Bring MCC Photo ID
• Dollar Bills for Copy Card
• Copy Machine
• Computer Printers
• SINGLES
• Change for Fiche/film machines

4
Finding Short Stories

• MCC Book Catalog
• KEYWORD Search
• Put your short story title in quotes Supper at
  Elsinore
• This searches the table of contents of all books
• Not all TOC are uploaded into the Book Catalog
• If you dont find your story, then use the Short
  Story Index
• Short Story Index
• Look up your author
• Check MCC Book Catalog to find the book you need
• You may need to look in more than one index
• LitFinder
• Search by Title
• Text is available in database
• Not all short stories are available

5
Book Catalog

• http//www.mccfl.edu
• Library
• Book Catalog

6
Gale Literary Index

• Index to reference books
• (blue handout shows what MCC owns)
• Go into Literature Resource Center
• Click on Gale Literary Index
• Search by Author (its a better search)
• Check blue handout
• we have more than the public library

•  

7
MCC Library

• Use Electronic Databases (Home or Library)
• Come in and find
• Articles
• magazines, newspapers, journals
• Reference Articles
• electronic versions of Reference Books
• Ebooks

8
Database Choices

• Literature Resource Center (Gale)
• Full-text criticism overviews
• Gale Literary Index blue guide to reference
  sources
• MagillOnLiterature Plus (Magill)
• Full-text criticism overviews
• Lit Finder (Roth)
• Full-text, poems, short stories, speeches
• JSTOR (JSTOR)
• Full-text, scholarly, no email

9
Online Databases

• Access MCC Virtual Library
• http//www.mccfl.edu
• Library
• Electronic Resources

ID PIN needed
10
Works Cited

• Landmark Citation Machine
• http//citationmachine.net
• MCCs Citing Unusual Sources
• http//mccfl.edu/pages/767.asp
• MLA format Gale Reference Books databases
• MLA Manual books regular articles
• REF LB 2369 .G53

11
MCC Library Hours

• Bradenton Campus
• M-TH
• 745 a.m.-1000 p.m.
• F
• 745 a.m.-430 p.m.
• Sunday
• 200 p.m.-600 p.m.

• Venice Campus
• M-TH
• 745 a.m.-900 p.m.
• F
• 745 a.m. - 430 pm